In this video, Shireen Smith discusses how there are a variety of strategies for protecting the rights in your logo or design, from trademark registration to design registration and copyright statutory declarations.
March 1, 2010
The Law Protecting Online Service Providers
Can an Online Service Provider be held liable for illegal activities that occur by users on their service?Ā In the US, theĀ Digital Millennium Copyright ActĀ provides an exemption for ISPs who...
March 5, 2010
Website Contract in Context, to be released on 23 March, fills a gap in the market for legal advice for small businesses setting up or extending their online presence. In conjunction with SEO Contract in Context, which is available as ...
March 6, 2010
In my article onĀ Web 2.0 and online reputation monitoringĀ I discussed the potentially serious implications arising from the fact that online content is widely accessible on the internet to millions of people around the world.
Because...
March 9, 2010
Shireen Smith will be speaking on branding and reputation monitoring at this conference, which adopts a highly practical approach to commercial and topical issues in intellectual property law, ranging from how far does a commercial law...
March 23, 2010
Azrights Launch Website Contract in Context: Helping Small Businesses Get the Right Frills, and the Right Skillsā¦ and Smaller Bills
Azrights Solicitors announce the launch of their new on-line multimedia product, Website Contract in ...
March 30, 2010
World Intellectual Property Day is an annual occasion held on the 26th of April, the anniversary marking the date on which the Convention establishing the Word Intellectual Property Organisation came into force in 1970.
The objective...
April 13, 2010
Amidst opposition within Parliament, considerable protest from thousands, and condemnation from some of the most respected companies in the world, the Digital Economy Bill was made law last week, becoming the Digital Economy Act.
Con...
April 20, 2010
Charity and Brand Reputation
According to the Charity Commission, there are 179,320 registered charities in England and Wales, with a combined income of Ā£51,500,000,000. Charity is big business, and as with all business, it pays to be ...
May 4, 2010
Globalisation has given the possibility to think further afield. Not only in terms of selling products abroad and market expansion but also in terms of outsourcing work abroad to cut costs, (offshoring). The beginning part of the last de...
May 10, 2010
Jon Bloor over at theĀ Peninsula blogĀ raises an interesting question about communicating your social media policy in contracts.Ā We would all do well to think about this subject regularly because social media is in its early stages, mean...
May 11, 2010
Social media for the legal profession
This is part 2 of the blog post āWould the Zappos Social Media Policy be Right for you?ā which I began yesterday.Ā As mentioned there I want to briefly touch on some of the issues law firms may w...
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